The Congress MLA had filed a case against the BJP leader January 4 for insulting her on a media platform, under Section 509 IPC (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman).

The Calcutta High Court has made a strong observation against Union Minister Babul Supriyo for his comments on Trinamool Congress MLA Mahua Moitra during a debate on a TV channel.

"A lady should not be humiliated in this manner using such words...the language used in politics is degrading with every passing day," observed the court during the hearing. The court also passed severe stricture and said that Babul Supriyo's remarks were reprehensible, below the dignity of his office and that he had no right to speak to a lady like. The court added that the BJP leader should take lessons from the unimpeachable conduct of Atal Bihari Vajpayee on how to conduct himself.

The tiff between Mahua Moitra and BJP's Babul Supriyo has taken a new turn with this court observation.

The Congress MLA had filed a case against the BJP leader January 4 for insulting her on a media platform, under Section 509 IPC (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman).

According to Mohua Moitra, the comments came during the TV debate, when MP Babul Supriyo said, "Mahua are you drunk?.

The accused BJP leader was summoned to the Alipore Police Station twice in lieu of this charge but he did not appear any of the time. Later, a court had issued an arrest warrant against Babul Supriyo. But before things could turn sour, Babul Supriyo's lawyers filed a petition for quashing the matter.

"We had filed a petition for nullifying the matter before Justice Joymalya Bagchi and after hearing our side, he has rightly observed and accepted that it as a 509 application as well as jurisdiction. Apart from that, we had also raised a point on the jurisdiction which he has accepted," said Priyanka Tibrewal, Babul Supriyo's lawyer.

"We also asked for the stay on the proceedings which were going on in the trial court. He has given us a stay of six weeks which can be extended and in between he has said that the matter will appear within four weeks in his court as a contested application," Tibrewal added.

However, Mahua Moitra expressed her faith in the judiciary claiming that justice would prevail.